Framing effects and bounded rationality imply that election campaigns may be an important determinant of election outcomes. This paper uses a two-party setting and simple game theoretic models to analyse the strategic interaction between the parties campaign decisions. Alternations of power...

Framing effects and bounded rationality imply that election campaigns may be an important determinant of election outcomes. This paper uses a two-party setting and simple game theoretic models to analyse the strategic interaction between the parties' campaign decisions. Alternations of power...

This paper wants to be both: an introduction to game-theoretical thinking as well as a game-theoretical discussion of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein. Note that the intention of this article is to convince theatergoers and people who work in the theatrical arts that it is worthwhile to study...

The urban space paper is introduced by a brief “report” on the founding of Rome by Romulus; he traced a furrow and thereby defined the urban space. The core of the paper, however, defines the urban space by the dimension of collective decision making expressed in the form of voting games. It...

We use the Public Good (Power) Index and the Public Value to rank the marriages of business relations of 16 elite families in 15th century Florence – with a focus on the networks of the Medici and the taking of power by Cosimo de' Medici. Theoretical analysis supports the outstanding position...

The paper starts from the hypothesis that the public good index (PGI) could be much more successful if it were introduced by a more prominent game theorist. It argues that the violation of local monotonicity, inherent to this measure of a priori voting power, can be an asset – especially if...

The Public Choice Research Centre (PCRC) operated as the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence from 2008 to 2013. Its founding partners were University of Turku, Turku School of Economics and University of Hamburg. The focus of research of the Hamburg group was on three topics: voting power...